Qujiang, which was only a few miles away from the fierce battle, the Jinhua Town Water Camp encountered the Quzhou Water Camp of the Qing army on its way south after just passing through Peifengtan....≦,

From the Qu River to the intersection of Shentangyuan and the Qu River, the boat was covered in Shentangyuan and burned the Qing army's floating bridge. This was the order issued directly by Chen Wen after careful calculations by the General Staff. It was also the most important task of their water camp in this battle that was related to the overall situation of Zhejiang's anti-Qing.

Shentangyuan was not convenient for large warships to enter, but the small fleet carrying tinder oil was enough to burn all the floating bridges. At that time, the main force of the Tartars east of Shentangyuan was just a turtle in a jar.

However, one side was in the water and the other side was in the wind, but the wind had not reached the speed that was enough to allow the boat to exceed the ships going downstream in the countercurrent. Therefore, even if the wind direction was convenient, the water camp in Jinhua Town was far faster than their opponents. With the sudden appearance of the Quzhou Water Camp, the water camp warship that tried to cover the boat into Shentangyuan was blocked here and had to fight with the Qing army water camp first.

"We should have set out earlier."

Yang Kai just complained about the captain who was on the ship, but the captain did not dare to take it. The time for the departure of the water camp was decided by the General Staff, because they received information. During these days in previous years, the wind direction was more beneficial to the ships hiking up.

However, the lack of understanding and application of physics-related knowledge such as fluid dynamics, and the error in the estimate of the speed ratio of sailing in the wind and closing the sails in the wind and not being smooth, led to the water camp being stuck in such an embarrassing situation by the Qing army. Even in the entire water camp, no one knows how to calculate the calculations from Yang Kai, who is in charge of the vanguard fleet, and then from the captain, helmsman, and sailors below, and can only estimate based on experience, but it does not hinder their complaints.

"Our water camp should have its own staff. We cannot let those nerds and infantry staff come out to command the matters of the water camp. Even if not, the staff should have staff from our water camp, otherwise it will only ruin the Lord's affairs."

There is less than three miles of water from Shentangyuan here, and you will be able to arrive soon if you are on the wind. However, there is no other way now. You can only fight the Qing army's Quzhou Water Camp here and go after defeating the Qing army.

"Taking flags and telling Qian Guerrilla and the brothers behind him that the Tartars had fewer boats than us. Rush up and defeat them in one breath!"

Yang Kai, who was roaring, ordered the sailors to move out some firearms for water war from the cabin, picked up a fire shatter from them, looked at the galloping Qing army fleet, put them back, and then pulled out their waist knife.

"The Tartars don't have Zhang Fan, get closer, throw the hook and jump to the gang!"

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On the Qujiang River, artillery from the water camps of the Ming and Qing armies rose one after another. When they got closer, they attacked with firearms and bows, and then jumped to fight, and it was difficult to separate for a while.

Two or three miles away, on the battlefield within a radius of several miles, the Ming and Qing armies, whose soldiers were combined, were more than 20,000, were engaged in the largest battle since the Battle of Zhoushan last year, and a battle to determine the strategic initiative of southwestern Zhejiang by field battles. And at this moment, it has reached the most critical moment.

The cavalry under Chen Jin came from various Qing troops participating in the war, and it can almost be said to be the essence of the entire western Zhejiang, southern Zhejiang and northern Fujian. In addition to the personal soldiers used to guard the officers, almost all of them were drawn by him. Only Jiangxi Admiral Liu Guangbi sent only more than 100 cavalry, but the proportion was much higher.

Liu Guangbi was born in the Han army's blue flag. He was not a single banner and had no friendship with Chen Jin's Zhenglan Banner. Moreover, Liu Guangbi was directly ordered to be the governor of Jiangxi, Jiangnan, Ma Guozhu and Jiangxi Governor Cai Shiying. This battle was just a temporary secondment and was not within the jurisdiction of Chen Jin's governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. It is rare to fight hard without regard for casualties. It is not even possible to use the elite in his hands to serve Chen Jin's plan as cannon fodder.

However, Chen Jin had a bad record of shifting the blame to non-direct military generals during the Battle of Zhoushan. The miscellaneous parts of the Guanning Army seemed to be used to this plan. In order to prevent the inexplicable blame from taking the blame later, Liu Guangbi sent more than a hundred cavalry to be directly under Chen Jin's command. It would be hard for anyone to say that he was not right.

At the southernmost end of the battlefield, the brigade of Qing army cavalry, wearing armor and helmets like lightning rods, galloping south, intending to bypass the two bands of mandarin duck formations that were still fighting wildly, and heading straight for Chen Wen, who had already moved to the flag behind the left wing of the Ming army.

The tassels on the lightning rod were pulled over by the galloping wind. The purpose of this group of Qing cavalry was only one, that is, to kill Chen Wen before the Qing army's left wing and central army completely collapsed, or to cut down the Ming army's general flag, causing the Ming army to collapse in morale.

"The light cavalry with tactical maneuver speed is far superior to that of infantry soldiers, so it is indeed correct to use it in this way."

Noting Chen Jin's intention, Chen Wen did not set up defenses to let the flag get closer to Yiwu Camp or Nantang Camp. He also had a town-level battalion, three hundred cavalry, one bureau of four hundred infantry, several Fran machine cannons and dozens of tiger squat cannons. Although he still couldn't compare with the nearly 1,000 cavalry of the Qing army, Chen Wen did not dream of relying on this original reserve team to completely annihilate the Qing cavalry.

"Taking flag words to tell each unit that there is no need to return to aid. Attack with all your strength and defeat the main force of the Tartars."

"As for the order!"

The flag drummer shook the flag a few times according to special techniques, and stopped a little, and then shook it twice again. After a while, from north to south, the right wing commander Chen Guobao, the central army commander Li Ruixin, the left wing commander Wu Dengke, and the reinforcements commander An Youfu, all gave up their plans to return to the aid and began to re-arrange troops and increase their efforts. It can even be said that they began to attack the Qing army in front of them regardless of casualties.

They knew very well that Chen Wen was planning to use himself and the flag as bait to prevent the Qing army's cavalry from turning. However, in order to prevent accidents, they still dispatched some soldiers to guard the rear of the battle formation in order to prepare the Qing army to use tricks to attack the formations of various units.

At first glance, it was like the continuous Qing cavalry that had been unconsciously divided into several teams while advancing. If you were familiar with these Qing troops, you might be able to see that these Qing cavalry had begun to divide each other according to their respective subordinate troops. However, Chen Wen, who did not know this, had no time to consider the possibility here, but began to arrange troops.

The infantry team of a bureau guarded all sides with sentries as units, forming a simple hollow square formation, with the positions of flags and artillery, and space reserved for the cavalry to reorganize the team. As for the three hundred cavalrymen directly under the town, they were already standing in the formation, waiting for the order to attack.

"Master General, let's lead the cavalry to attack."

Hearing Lou Jiye's plea, Chen Wen shook his head. The chief of staff has never commanded the cavalry since he established the army. Although he was a monk halfway through martial arts, he was still not as good as Li Ruixin, Wu Dengke, and Lou Jiye who had been practicing martial arts since childhood. Even he became a monk halfway through martial arts for eight or nine years, Yin Yue, who had been in charge of martial arts for eight or nine years, was not as good as Yin Yue. However, his experience of personally leading cavalry to charge several times is still there. Chen Wen did not intend to pretend to be the leader of the entire army. He was the leader of the entire army and did not make the "civilian officer" come out to charge.

"Execute the command!"

The military order fell like a mountain. Seeing that Chen Wen decided here, and the smoke and dust of the Qing army's cavalry were getting closer, he had to give up his plan to persuade him and return to the responsibility of acting as the commander.

"The soldiers of the town's direct camp, the main force of the Tatars is on the verge of collapse. This is their last blow, and keeping the flag is a victory!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

"Wan Sheng!"

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Cheers were endless. Since the division of land, the morale of the Ming army has been very strong, especially the establishment and implementation of the military merit system, and the morale of the Ming army in Jinhua has almost reached the point where they are happy when they hear wars. Because only wars can achieve military merits, and obtaining military merits can obtain hereditary land.

There is no need to learn the eight-legged essay, and there is no need to cultivate the single-plank bridge called the imperial examination that ten thousand people have fought for. You only need to be brave and obey orders to obtain hereditary land and become a rich peasant or even a landlord. Moreover, those military merit fields are not required to pay any taxes and labor within twenty years. Most of these are the soldiers of the Ming army from Jinhua, who were peasants, longed for day and night since childhood.

The Qing army had rushed within two hundred meters, and the Folang machine cannons in the formation had begun to shoot in the general direction, and the tiger squat cannons had been loaded between some infantry teams.

The cavalry of the Qing army paid a few cavalry prices under the bombardment of several Folang machine cannons and rushed into the 100-meter area. With the order of the central army, the firearm teams retreated into the formation after completing a shooting, revealing the 15-foot spear of the not-so-intensive spear formation.

Horses are very smart and timid animals. It is best to blindfold their eyes when they kick the spear forest, otherwise they will often turn on their own. Moreover, the preciousness of the cavalry in the south is not so stupid that their owners use expensive war horses and spears to exchange their lives. Moreover, if they lose their war horses, the cavalry becomes worse than infantry. They either are trampled to death by war horses or die from enemy sprints, and they do not even have the chance to escape.

The cavalry of the brigade quickly rushed to a range of fifty meters. Some of the Qing cavalry began to use three-eyed guns and cavalry bows to shoot, and the Ming army formation on the opposite side, which was like a frightened hedgehog, also began to fight back with tiger squat cannons.

After a moment when the cavalry and squat cannons filled the fifty-meter space, the Qing army of the brigade began to be divided into two parts, one of which circled from the south side of the hollow square formation to the west side close to the Yiwu camp, while the other circled to the east side. During this period, the cavalry of the Qing army never stopped. The light cavalry used fire to destroy the formation of heavy infantry by shooting, and then rushed to the formation was the most basic tactic. The Qing cavalry, which lacked unified command, did not have the possibility of using more complex tactics, and could only rely on the advantage of military strength to kill only half of the infantry alone.

As long as you can destroy the formation and rush into the battle formation, you don’t even need to kill Chen Wen. As long as you cut down the flag, the nearly ten thousand Ming troops on the battlefield will be destroyed without attack.

"Kill the Tartars!"

The cavalry of the brigade rushed out of the gap reserved on the north side under Chen Wen's leadership and rushed towards the Qing cavalry that had already circled to the west side.

The cavalry under Chen Wen was organized according to Qi Jiguang's horse camp, but the changes were greatly made. It was mainly because Chen Wen was more superstitious about hand-to-hand combat, and the organization of the gun cavalry was infinitely compressed. Although the cavalry was still one team for every twelve people, composed of captains, fire soldiers and ten war soldiers, the bird gunman, who could only be used once in the cavalry, had been cancelled. After being replaced with the saber cavalry, he carried three-eyed guns as long-range killing weapons like other cavalry.

The cavalry of the brigade rushed out and dispersed in teams, rushing towards the Qing army without any harm. As soon as the three-eyed guns were approaching, the Qing cavalry on the west side of the shooting Ming army infantry were caught off guard by the three-eyed guns of the Ming army. Immediately afterwards, when the Ming army's Ming army shouted and rushed over, they had to replace their own melee weapons and rush to the Ming army.

The collision began completely with Chen Wen and a leader of the Qing cavalry, who fought with all his strength to cut each other with his sword.

In order to facilitate the use of weapons, the cavalry of the Qing army was separated by a certain distance from the comrades. Under the leadership of their respective captains, each team of the Ming army lined up in the order of sabers, sabers, palladium, gun sticks and sticks, and only the fire soldiers followed the end.

The war horses passed by, and the Qing cavalry general who had just been shocked by Chen Wen's brute force immediately ushered in a new round of attacks. He first avoided the flag gun that thrust the stinging flag gun, and then used his body to regain balance to kill a Ming cavalry's right hand with a knife, and then he avoided the attack of the next saber with a perfect iron bridge.

Facing the Ming army's Linhai Boss Chen Wen, who is famous for his cunning and martial arts, the rapid secretion of hormones made him react far better than usual. In this moment, he made continuous and difficult tactical actions that he could not even imagine in his daily life. But then, his waist, arms, even wrists and neck were at the moment when the old force had gone, and the new force had not yet emerged. The second saber cavalry had already stabbed the weapon straight.

With a bang, the palladium pillar inserted into his horrified eyes shoveled off his helmet that was like a lightning rod inserted on his head, and he lifted off his scalp.

"ah!"

Fortunately, the pain on his head was saved. But the next second, a gun stick pierced straight, and with the help of the galloping horsepower, it pierced through his armor with just one shot. The big stick hand behind the gun sticker directly hit his head with a stick, and instantly the white and red splattered.

At the same time, Chen Wen slashed the sword of the Qing cavalry with one sword, and then the two passed by. Due to the gap between the Qing cavalry, Chen Wen adjusted his body and met the Qing cavalry not far behind with a cavalry.

"kill!"

The Qing cavalry suddenly stabbed Chen Wen with the small shield on his left arm and suddenly stabbed him. However, Chen Wen also lost the opportunity to chop and slaughter, so he had to continue to rush towards the next Qing army that was racing, a Qing army warrior with a bearded face holding a mace...

The cavalry of the brigade was fleeting within a range of hundreds of meters. The cavalry that the Qing army dispersed to use the cavalry's personal martial arts did not encounter too many opponents. Chen Wen did not encounter too many opponents. He avoided the bearded attack on the bearded man. Then he got two swords, one from the Qing army rushing from the left. He chopped on Chen Wen's small shield on Chen Wen's left arm, and the other sword was rubbing against the armor on Chen Wen's shoulder. Even Chen Wen could clearly see the splashing sparks.

As the interweaving ended, Chen Wen personally killed the Qing army that slashed on his left arm with a knife, and punched a Qing cavalry in the face and knocked him down. He didn't know if the Qing army was killed by the Ming army behind, or if it was trampled to death in the interweaving war horses.

The moment after the interweaving, although the Qing army suffered a lot and lost the cavalry general in the lead, they saw Chen Wen wearing mountain armor. After rushing through the Ming army's cavalry, they quickly turned around on the spot and tried to chase the tail of the Ming army's cavalry. But at this moment, the musketeers on the west side of the Ming army completed the loading. With a command, all the muzzles and the other half of the archers who used the arrows to draw the bow were aimed at the Qing army's cavalry, and they could only watch all this happen.

At the end of the first round of interlacing, Chen Wen knew that he could not catch up with the tail of the Qing army at all at his speed. Fortunately, this tactic was also trained on weekdays. Although he was still a little unfamiliar, he was not completely unfamiliar.

When they found that the Ming army's cavalry had rushed over, there were two Qing army cavalry chasing each other one behind them. Lou Jiye signaled to shake the flag, and the battle formation on the south side opened a hole to put the Ming army's cavalry in. Then they opened the gap from the north side, and the original prey immediately became a follower hunter.

In the following time, the cavalry of the Ming army pursued and fled with the Qing army, and relocated their positions several times with the hollow square formation and reorganized the formation. The Qing army wanted to pursue but did not catch them, but if they wanted to rush to the formation, they had to face a spear like a forest. Behind the spear forest, the Ming army's muskets and bows and arrows were always consuming the vitality of the Qing army.

However, as time went by, the central and right wings of the Qing army on the main battlefield could no longer maintain their own front line. As the Ming army was bitten to pieces, more and more deserters were dominated by fear. Until the moment when even the supervising team was powerless, the entire battle formation began to collapse completely.

"Win!"

Having just retreated into the formation, the cheers from the central army that belonged to the winners came into Chen Wen's ears. The Qing cavalry, who were still chasing him, stopped in the distance for a moment and gave up their attempt to continue the attack and fled to the south of the Ming army with their respective subordinates.
Chapter completed!